Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Ivory Coast and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Severed Heads,
Saccharine Trust,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Görl,
Man Parrish,
Pulsallama,
Maurizio,
Eli Mardock,
The Knickerbockers,
Fatback Band,
Technova,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Panda Bear,
Visage,
Chrome,
Wire,
Ossler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jesper Dahlback,
David McCallum,
Nas,
Rosa Yemen,
Drexciya,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Grauzone,
Graham Central Station,
Cal Tjader,
Underground Resistance,
EPMD,
Robert Hood,
Yazoo,
Flipper,
Terry Callier,
CMW,
The United States of America,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Minor Threat,
DJ Style,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pole,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Reuben Wilson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Black Moon,
Aural Exciters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Suicide,
The Toasters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Copeland,
Outsiders,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Yusef Lateef,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
Soft Cell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cameo,
Hot Snakes,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.